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Lost · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove N -- Part N
80 / 222 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART N
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDINKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost on drums

222 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-44, ride through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-68, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 45-51 and 53-60, and 3 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Lost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 52, 64, 65, 66, 69 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, K -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-61 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 133-186 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lost?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lost hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lost?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 52, 64, 65, 66, 69 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED